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Written by James M. Tate / 4/13/2023 / No comments / british neo noir , colin welland , david warner , del henney , donald webster , dustin hoffman , jerry fielding , jim norton , ken hutchison , peter vaughan , sam peckinpah , seventies , susan george , t.p. mckenna

SAM PECKINPAH'S CONTROVERSIAL BRITISH CLASSIC 'STRAW DOGS'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRC2SFD2e2UXfmtfZfV-Q3fC2Vs5gcUL_RChPiSHMa15qSQ0VxJmm1whiX8_cnZP8SL4QcxW3zZKF6fP84M51v0XhkzWesqXxBVxo6uWZveZ6zO-m_yMvZ4QmW5rxw3bJug57nLFDamRqIsIizdtxuvSASmEzdOSoq6e4Pg6P7Lq42b-NZCg46GLEunmgq/s1554/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-24%20at%204.57.29%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="916" data-original-width="1554" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRC2SFD2e2UXfmtfZfV-Q3fC2Vs5gcUL_RChPiSHMa15qSQ0VxJmm1whiX8_cnZP8SL4QcxW3zZKF6fP84M51v0XhkzWesqXxBVxo6uWZveZ6zO-m_yMvZ4QmW5rxw3bJug57nLFDamRqIsIizdtxuvSASmEzdOSoq6e4Pg6P7Lq42b-NZCg46GLEunmgq/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-24%20at%204.57.29%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dustin Hoffman with Susan George & Ken Hutchison in STRAW DOGS Year: 1971 Rating: *****</td></tr></tbody></table>American director Sam Peckinpah's THE WILD BUNCH is considered his peak — yet an even wilder albeit initially more subtle and ambiguous bunch exist within the British-set (and extremely British-styled) STRAW DOGS...Where nuclear scientist Dustin Hoffman attempts much needed study-time in an old stone-cobbled house with younger wife Susan George, who's more like the locals she grew up around than him...

british neo noir, colin welland, david warner, del henney, donald webster, dustin hoffman, jerry fielding, jim norton, ken hutchison, peter vaughan, sam peckinpah, seventies, susan george, t.p. mckenna

SAM PECKINPAH'S CONTROVERSIAL BRITISH CLASSIC 'STRAW DOGS'

Dustin Hoffman with Susan George & Ken Hutchison in STRAW DOGS Year: 1971 Rating: ***** American director Sam Peckinpah's THE WILD B...

STANLEY BAKER, URSULA ANDRESS, DAVID WARNER 'PERFECT FRIDAY'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidPxanqRoYFXqPuOUK6scuAM4A7ICK0AtKdpVji0TevpuMZZpIiQv-NMXfRyy9Ud9A-EQGIihnfSLmMksZAYzjl8xkLqEeK0YG8AMQirP7_6MIYRu7JTBTiSbEP8MPwgktrUUoOQjtLwOIOFBiqv_9daYjcT2jVhtARdCCHbMjNmZ_8PSi_WJXF-1Iu2jF/s1470/Screen%20Shot%202022-02-05%20at%2010.23.19%20AM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="755" data-original-width="1470" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidPxanqRoYFXqPuOUK6scuAM4A7ICK0AtKdpVji0TevpuMZZpIiQv-NMXfRyy9Ud9A-EQGIihnfSLmMksZAYzjl8xkLqEeK0YG8AMQirP7_6MIYRu7JTBTiSbEP8MPwgktrUUoOQjtLwOIOFBiqv_9daYjcT2jVhtARdCCHbMjNmZ_8PSi_WJXF-1Iu2jF/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-02-05%20at%2010.23.19%20AM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: PERFECT FRIDAY Year: 1970 Rating: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>In the stylish and quirky British bank-heist comedy PERFECT FRIDAY, the most offbeat aspect is the editing, providing non-linear time sequences where uptight banker Stanley Baker meets with a flaky Lord played by David Warner in a museum... a single conversation randomly spliced throughout the first twenty-minutes as we get to know Baker's dull banking desk job... until Ursula Andress walks in...While the quirky/offbeat Warner really seems like he's channeling Peter O'Toole, Baker's professionally classy role is to the tough guy actor what THE THOMAS CROWNE AFFAIR was to Steve McQueen, only his Mr. Graham has very little money,.. as does a perpetually-broke Warner in an almost sexless marriage to Andress, making for the usual "who'll backstab who?" criminal trio, common in this genre...

british, crime, dark comedy, david warner, heist, neo noir, quirky, seventies, stanley baker, t.p. mckenna, ursula andress

STANLEY BAKER, URSULA ANDRESS, DAVID WARNER 'PERFECT FRIDAY'

Title: PERFECT FRIDAY Year: 1970 Rating: ***1/2 In the stylish and quirky British bank-heist comedy PERFECT FRIDAY, the most offbeat aspect ...

CLASSIC CRIME CINEMA AMBIANCE FOR 'THE SWEENEY: NIGHT OUT'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAji9LB6UDdhwcBM9kWXW9t9QoriFKIib5BqrqjqdUBML5avw1MPWC9Jbt5WKybUDh-6k2Ft2NglxPFqyaYow-80SJk2kIXCKbNLlbYqLysfE7zMG6ZD57Fk6-lSj2sW7uEiQaii79A1htqezY8mwiOuANqTHPZ9AjpgaWabpE860KNj4uXN-_DDNAbw/s2022/1.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1387" data-original-width="2022" height="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAji9LB6UDdhwcBM9kWXW9t9QoriFKIib5BqrqjqdUBML5avw1MPWC9Jbt5WKybUDh-6k2Ft2NglxPFqyaYow-80SJk2kIXCKbNLlbYqLysfE7zMG6ZD57Fk6-lSj2sW7uEiQaii79A1htqezY8mwiOuANqTHPZ9AjpgaWabpE860KNj4uXN-_DDNAbw/w400-h275/1.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Sweeney: NIGHT OUT Year: 1975 Rating: ****</td></tr></tbody></table>One of the best episodes of the first SWEENEY season stays mostly indoors, and in one small, shabby apartment room belonging to Mitzi Rogers as Iris Lohttps, Jack Regan's loose and lawdy, heart-of-gold lush ex-girlfriend living upstairs from a seedy bar where she works...Providing NIGHT OUT a kind of neon-noir aesthetic that makes the tough, world-weary, gritty and experienced dialogue of the former lovers that much more pulpy and inspired...And John Thaw's Regan is there for a reason because, in the style of crime classics like LARCENY INC, a group of robbers plan on breaking through the building into an adjoined bank, so it's a waiting game for the exterior cops led by a shallow, political, unapologetic T.P. McKenna's Det. Supt. Grant, who has authority-hating Regan's number from the start, which leads to a delicious 11th hour CLOCKWORK ORANGE homage, combining this episode's gangster roots with new-wave exploitation and even a Western-style barroom brawl for good measure.

action, british, british neo noir, cop, crime, dennis waterman, john thaw, seventies, sweeney, t.p. mckenna, terence plummer

CLASSIC CRIME CINEMA AMBIANCE FOR 'THE SWEENEY: NIGHT OUT'

The Sweeney: NIGHT OUT Year: 1975 Rating: **** One of the best episodes of the first SWEENEY season stays mostly indoors, and in one small, ...

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